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Recently a young grandfather in the US was asked by his 4 year old granddaughter what he did for work all day.  The grandfather who works at a large American firm said, “I write email and do conference calls all day”.  That answer is a good joke, but people laugh at...

It’s not news anymore that adoption of hosted/cloud solutions for business telephony and unified communications is well underway as businesses, small to large, recognize the benefits in subscribing to unified communications “as-a-service” (UCaaS) versus purchasing and...

Evernote and Cisco? by Dave Michels in Telecom The story and predicament of Evernote is fascinating. The company should have gone out of business long before – and almost has several times. It was way ahead of it’s time. Evernote is one of my essential applications. I...

I hold a very different view of why Apple was so successful from that of most people. If my view is correct, Apple is now messing up big-time.
I think the reputation is that Apple builds premium-priced artistically designed stuff. I just flat disagree with this.
Apple’s success has been when they sell simpler products at a price the competition cannot match.

We recently set up and used the Apple Watch. It was a very well designed product, but at this point is probably a bit before it’s time. You can read more about that experience here.